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Showing posts with label ART & LITERATURE. Show all posts

Pritzker Prize Laureate Gottfried Bohm passed away.

Pritzker Prize Laureate Gottfried Bohm passed away.
German architect Gottfried Böhm, designer of the brutalist Church of the Pilgrimage, has passed away aged 101. Böhm, who was the eighth winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, was widely known for his concrete churches that were largely built in Germany. The co…
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Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize 2021.

Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize 2021.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer who was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption, has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize, praised for her “ability to capture and communicate vital truths even amidst times of upheaval”. Dan…
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Meghan Markle releases first children's book 'The Bench'.

Meghan Markle releases first children's book 'The Bench'.
The first children's book by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is a multicultural tribute to fatherhood. "The Bench," a picture story published Tuesday 08 June 2021 by Random House Children's Books, celebrates the bond between Meghan's husband Prince Harry…
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BAFTA TV Awards 2021 winners announced.

BAFTA TV Awards 2021 winners announced.
The winners of the BAFTA TV Awards 2021 were announced.  The ceremony itself, filmed at London’s Television Centre and hosted by Richard Ayoade, was a hybrid event that kept in line with COVID-19 protocols by allowing a number of nominees from the main performance categorie…
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Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind win International Business Book of the Year Award 2021

Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind win International Business Book of the Year Award 2021
Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind won the International Business Book of the Year Award 2021. The authors made history this week by winning the prestigious International Business Book of the Year Award for 2021 for their recently launched book “Transformation in Times of Crisis”,…
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David Diop becomes the first French Winner for International Booker Prize.

David Diop becomes the first French Winner for International Booker Prize.
French novelist and academic David Diop has become the first French writer to win the International Booker Prize for Fiction. His second novel, "At Night All Blood is Black", was inspired by his Senegalese great-grandfather's silence about his experiences in Wo…
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Dr. Abeykoon wins the South-East Asia Region WHO World No Tobacco Day 2021 award.

Dr. Abeykoon wins the South-East Asia Region WHO World No Tobacco Day 2021 award.
In recognition of his extraordinary contribution to combatting harmful tobacco use, Dr Palitha Abeykoon, Former Chairman of National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol in Sri Lanka, International Pubilc Health Expert, and WHO Director-General Special Envoy for COVID-19 Prepar…
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Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award.

Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award.
Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 International Dublin Literary Award for the novel "Lost Children Archive". The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two child…
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Pablo Picasso's work sells for $. 103.4 mn.

Pablo Picasso's work sells for $. 103.4 mn.
A painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for more than $100m - marking the fifth work by the Spanish artist to sell for a nine-figure sum. Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold for $103.4m (£73.5m) at Christie's auction house in New York. That figure comprises $90…
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Richard Osman wins author of the year after hit debut novel.

Richard Osman wins author of the year after hit debut novel.
Richard Osman has been crowned author of the year at the British Book Awards after the runaway success of his debut novel The Thursday Murder Club. Pointless star Osman said his win for his story of elderly amateur sleuths was an "absolute dream come true". Also tri…
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Mumbai-born Dr Tahera Qutbuddin First Indian To Win Arab World Nobel Prize.

Mumbai-born Dr Tahera Qutbuddin First Indian To Win Arab World Nobel Prize.
Dr Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, recently became the first person of Indian-origin to win the 15th Sheikh Zyed Book Award. The award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of the Arab world. Dr Qutbuddin, who was born in Mumbai…
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The World Book Capital for 2021: Tbilisi, Georgia.

The World Book Capital for 2021: Tbilisi, Georgia.
In the Republic of Georgia, a small but spirited weekend opens the 2021 UNESCO World Book Capital program. As is its custom, UNESCO’s World Book Capital program used World Book Day (Friday, April 23) to make its transfer from the 2020 city to the new 2021 designee. Less than …
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J.K. Rowling children's story 'The Christmas Pig' to be released on October 12.

J.K. Rowling children's story 'The Christmas Pig' to be released on October 12.
One of the world's most successful authors is coming back with a new book just in time for the holiday season. Author J.K. Rowling announced Tuesday on her website that her latest children's book is titled "The Christmas Pig." Rowling said the story is about…
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Shravan Rathod, of Nadeem-Shravan duo dies at age 66.

Shravan Rathod, of Nadeem-Shravan duo dies at age 66.
Composer Shravan Rathod, of popular music director duo Nadeem-Shravan, passed away on 22 April due to the current pandemic related complications. Nadeem-Shravan were among the most popular music composers in the 90s, giving chartbuster soundtracks in films like Aashiqui (199…
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405th death anniversary of William Shakespeare.

405th death anniversary of William Shakespeare.
April 23 is the 405th death anniversary of the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, William Shakespeare.  William Shakespeare, who was born in 1564 at Stratford, England, was an English poet, playwright and actor, commonly regarded as the finest master of the English language and …
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Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet wins National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet wins National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, published as Hamnet & Judith in Canada, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. The Irish-British author's novel is an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague. Hamnet, an unfort…
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Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir.

Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir.
The American author Carmen Maria Machado has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir "In the Dream House", which examines the domestic abuse she was subjected to by her ex-girlfriend. It is at once an inventive and radical work, a true testimony to her…
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Author Beverly Cleary dies at age 104.

Author Beverly Cleary dies at age 104.
Beverly Cleary, the award-winning children's author whose work has been read by young readers for more than 70 years, has died at 104, her publisher, HarperCollins, said in a statement Friday (26th). Cleary, whose books helped generations of kids grapple with the challen…
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Renowned Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski passes away.

Renowned  Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski passes away.
Renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski has passed away. He was a leading figure in Poland’s New Wave or Generation ’68, a literary movement of the late 1960s that called for a simple language to relate directly to reality.  Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” was…
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‘Aatmanirbharta’ chosen as Oxford Hindi Word of the Year 2020.

‘Aatmanirbharta’ chosen as Oxford Hindi Word of the Year 2020.
‘Aatmanirbharta’, implying self-reliance, has been chosen by Oxford Languages, which publishes the Oxford English dictionary, as its Hindi Word of Year 2020. The Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that is chosen to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of th…
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